Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 100 88 84
Rank change year-on-year -12 -4 -30
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,106 1,658 2,113
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.35% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 3.76% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,407 789 1,244
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £74,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.68% +14.62% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,375 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £117,500 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £69,305 £70,000 £62,750
% change year-on-year -0.99% +11.55% -7.04%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -22 1,816 £75,000 - 2,222
UK excluding London -32 1,155 £69,305 -0.99% 1,327
Work from Home -19 847 £69,310 -0.99% 1,291
London -16 794 £85,000 +3.03% 1,209
North of England -48 370 £75,000 +7.14% 357
South East +53 314 £65,000 -7.14% 241
North West -60 201 £77,000 +10.00% 174
South West -4 148 £67,500 +10.20% 139
Midlands -72 108 £75,000 +7.14% 148
North East +12 92 £67,153 +54.82% 69
West Midlands -35 78 £80,000 +14.29% 87
Yorkshire +2 77 £69,310 -0.99% 115
Northern Ireland -27 72 £60,000 +33.33% 75
Wales -13 68 £62,000 +19.23% 53
East of England -44 41 £60,100 -5.73% 121
Scotland -52 34 £70,000 -9.68% 198
East Midlands -59 30 £65,000 -3.70% 61
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 42 (1.99%) Confluence
2 27 (1.28%) Apache Spark
3 20 (0.95%) Apache
3 20 (0.95%) CMS
4 15 (0.71%) Camunda
5 11 (0.52%) IIS
6 10 (0.47%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 10 (0.47%) OpenStack
7 9 (0.43%) nginx
7 9 (0.43%) WordPress
8 8 (0.38%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
9 7 (0.33%) Drupal
9 7 (0.33%) JBoss
9 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
11 3 (0.14%) DNN
11 3 (0.14%) Headless CMS
11 3 (0.14%) Kentico
11 3 (0.14%) Sitefinity
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 10 (0.47%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.095%) PlantUML
5 1 (0.047%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.24%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.047%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.047%) Eikon
5 1 (0.047%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.047%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,087 (51.61%) AWS
2 903 (42.88%) Azure
3 331 (15.72%) GCP
4 290 (13.77%) GitHub
5 268 (12.73%) Serverless
6 198 (9.40%) SaaS
7 184 (8.74%) Azure DevOps
8 141 (6.70%) AWS Lambda
9 128 (6.08%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (6.03%) AWS CloudFormation
11 118 (5.60%) Amazon S3
12 106 (5.03%) GitHub Copilot
13 96 (4.56%) Azure Service Bus
14 87 (4.13%) Amazon ECS
14 87 (4.13%) GitHub Actions
15 66 (3.13%) Amazon SQS
16 63 (2.99%) Azure AKS
17 56 (2.66%) Amazon EC2
18 53 (2.52%) Azure Monitor
19 50 (2.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 25 (1.19%) Network Security
2 16 (0.76%) VPN
3 15 (0.71%) Broadband
3 15 (0.71%) DMARC
4 14 (0.66%) DNS
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 10 (0.47%) AMQP
7 9 (0.43%) Firewall
7 9 (0.43%) HTTP
8 8 (0.38%) TCP/IP
9 7 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.28%) Hyperconnected
11 5 (0.24%) RFID
12 3 (0.14%) BGP
12 3 (0.14%) LTE
12 3 (0.14%) NAS
12 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 3 (0.14%) SSL
13 2 (0.095%) DHCP
13 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 325 (15.43%) MongoDB
2 250 (11.87%) PostgreSQL
3 210 (9.97%) NoSQL
4 167 (7.93%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.12%) Elasticsearch
6 121 (5.75%) MySQL
7 106 (5.03%) SQL Server
8 90 (4.27%) Relational Database
9 75 (3.56%) Redis
10 55 (2.61%) DynamoDB
11 46 (2.18%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.38%) Big Data
13 22 (1.04%) Pinecone
14 21 (1.00%) Data Lake
15 15 (0.71%) Chroma
16 14 (0.66%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.57%) DTS
18 10 (0.47%) Db2
18 10 (0.47%) Metadata
19 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 296 (14.06%) Git
2 204 (9.69%) GitLab
3 166 (7.88%) Jenkins
4 74 (3.51%) TeamCity
5 69 (3.28%) JUnit
6 56 (2.66%) JIRA
7 55 (2.61%) Cucumber
8 41 (1.95%) Mockito
9 40 (1.90%) Cypress.io
10 36 (1.71%) Maven
11 31 (1.47%) Claude Code
12 29 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 23 (1.09%) Selenium
14 17 (0.81%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 15 (0.71%) JMeter
15 15 (0.71%) Postman
16 13 (0.62%) Vite
17 11 (0.52%) SonarQube
18 9 (0.43%) Bitbucket
General
1 535 (25.40%) Finance
2 441 (20.94%) Social Skills
3 241 (11.44%) Public Sector
4 207 (9.83%) Banking
5 176 (8.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 155 (7.36%) Law
7 153 (7.26%) Analytical Skills
8 141 (6.70%) Retail
9 94 (4.46%) Financial Institution
10 87 (4.13%) Legal
11 70 (3.32%) Back Office
12 60 (2.85%) Marketing
13 46 (2.18%) Aerospace
14 38 (1.80%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.47%) Games
16 28 (1.33%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.85%) Front Office
18 15 (0.71%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 751 (35.66%) Developer
2 530 (25.17%) Senior
3 382 (18.14%) Software Engineer
4 362 (17.19%) Lead
5 318 (15.10%) Architect
6 203 (9.64%) Senior Developer
7 191 (9.07%) .NET Developer
8 166 (7.88%) Full-Stack Developer
9 165 (7.83%) Java Developer
10 142 (6.74%) Java Engineer
11 133 (6.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 125 (5.94%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 110 (5.22%) Solutions Architect
14 107 (5.08%) Principal Engineer
15 84 (3.99%) Lead Software Engineer
16 78 (3.70%) DevOps Engineer
17 70 (3.32%) Software Developer
18 66 (3.13%) Lead Developer
19 62 (2.94%) Backend Developer
19 62 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (25.21%) .NET
2 456 (21.65%) React
3 426 (20.23%) Node.js
4 414 (19.66%) Terraform
5 410 (19.47%) Spring
6 374 (17.76%) Spring Boot
7 313 (14.86%) RESTful
8 299 (14.20%) Kafka
9 292 (13.87%) REST
10 238 (11.30%) ASP.NET
11 226 (10.73%) AngularJS
12 218 (10.35%) .NET Core
13 197 (9.35%) Vue
14 193 (9.16%) ASP.NET Core
15 123 (5.84%) Blazor
16 102 (4.84%) ASP.NET Web API
17 87 (4.13%) HTML
18 86 (4.08%) .NET Framework
19 83 (3.94%) CSS
20 80 (3.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 704 (33.43%) Cloud Native
2 396 (18.80%) Distributed Systems
3 172 (8.17%) Product Ownership
4 131 (6.22%) Enterprise Software
5 102 (4.84%) Legacy Systems
6 85 (4.04%) Onboarding
7 66 (3.13%) AI Agents
8 65 (3.09%) Public Cloud
9 52 (2.47%) Virtual Team
10 47 (2.23%) e-Learning
11 46 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
13 28 (1.33%) Management Information System
14 25 (1.19%) Distributed Architecture
15 22 (1.04%) Legacy Applications
16 21 (1.00%) Mainframe
16 21 (1.00%) Private Cloud
17 19 (0.90%) Blog
17 19 (0.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 19 (0.90%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 150 (7.12%) Linux
2 50 (2.37%) Windows
3 32 (1.52%) CentOS
3 32 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 22 (1.04%) Unix
5 10 (0.47%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.43%) Windows Server
7 8 (0.38%) Android
8 7 (0.33%) AIX
8 7 (0.33%) Debian
8 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,173 (55.70%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (48.62%) Agile
3 772 (36.66%) Software Engineering
4 745 (35.38%) DevOps
5 565 (26.83%) Mentoring
6 561 (26.64%) Full-Stack Development
7 500 (23.74%) Event-Driven
8 476 (22.60%) AI
9 456 (21.65%) Test Automation
10 444 (21.08%) Infrastructure as Code
11 421 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
12 416 (19.75%) Containerisation
13 385 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
14 336 (15.95%) Technical Leadership
15 311 (14.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
16 293 (13.91%) Scrum
17 273 (12.96%) Observability
18 265 (12.58%) Architectural Patterns
19 238 (11.30%) TDD
20 233 (11.06%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 790 (37.51%) Java
2 572 (27.16%) C#
3 505 (23.98%) SQL
4 448 (21.27%) JavaScript
5 417 (19.80%) Python
6 407 (19.33%) TypeScript
7 83 (3.94%) Go
8 57 (2.71%) Ruby
9 43 (2.04%) C++
10 36 (1.71%) Bash
11 33 (1.57%) PHP
12 29 (1.38%) Bicep
13 27 (1.28%) Kotlin
14 26 (1.23%) PowerShell
15 20 (0.95%) Rust
16 16 (0.76%) PL/SQL
17 13 (0.62%) Scala
18 12 (0.57%) Groovy
18 12 (0.57%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.47%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 356 (16.90%) Security Cleared
2 249 (11.82%) SC Cleared
3 166 (7.88%) Degree
4 105 (4.99%) DV Cleared
5 88 (4.18%) AWS Certification
6 84 (3.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 61 (2.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 35 (1.66%) Azure Certification
8 35 (1.66%) CISSP
9 22 (1.04%) CISM
10 18 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
10 18 (0.85%) TOGAF Certification
11 15 (0.71%) Master's Degree
12 10 (0.47%) MBA
13 9 (0.43%) DBS Check
14 8 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
15 6 (0.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 6 (0.28%) CCSP
15 6 (0.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 223 (10.59%) QA
2 100 (4.75%) Accessibility
3 39 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 39 (1.85%) WCAG
4 26 (1.23%) GDPR
5 24 (1.14%) NIST
6 19 (0.90%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.81%) NCSC
8 14 (0.66%) PCI DSS
9 12 (0.57%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.43%) ISO 20022
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.38%) GRC
11 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 6 (0.28%) Government Security Classifications
13 5 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
13 5 (0.24%) PSD2
14 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.14%) SEPA
15 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 613 (29.11%) Docker
2 41 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.47%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.047%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) Firmware
9 1 (0.047%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 683 (32.43%) Kubernetes
2 123 (5.84%) Grafana
3 98 (4.65%) Ansible
4 53 (2.52%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.33%) Argo
6 27 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.00%) Puppet
8 14 (0.66%) Kibana
9 11 (0.52%) Cilium
10 6 (0.28%) Progress Chef
11 5 (0.24%) Podman
12 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
13 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 3 (0.14%) Rancher
14 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
15 1 (0.047%) Cisco CUCM
15 1 (0.047%) Consul
15 1 (0.047%) Control-M
15 1 (0.047%) Fluentd
15 1 (0.047%) logstash
Vendors
1 343 (16.29%) Microsoft
2 100 (4.75%) Google
3 68 (3.23%) Oracle
4 56 (2.66%) Splunk
5 52 (2.47%) OpenAI
6 33 (1.57%) Dynatrace
7 28 (1.33%) Okta
8 26 (1.23%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.14%) Databricks
10 19 (0.90%) Mistral
11 18 (0.85%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.81%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.71%) AppDynamics
14 15 (0.71%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.66%) Adobe
15 14 (0.66%) OpenText
16 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 10 (0.47%) NetIQ